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Forecast: AI Progress, Batch 1 - Academic Papers
You can find my pre-mortem for these forecasts here. This post is the first of what I expect to be three batches of forecasts for the remaining open…
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Damien Laird
Pre-Mortem: Metaculus' AI Progress Tournament (...Sort Of)
I most recently wrote about my reasoning for wanting to try and forecast AI progress soon, and painted a rough picture of my next steps. Since then I’ve…
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Post-Mortem: 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference
Introduction The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) hosts an annual conference focused on, you guessed it, existential risks. I believe this…
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Why I haven't tried to forecast AI progress but will soon
Summary I have dedicated a lot of time and energy to better understanding and forecasting global catastrophic risks, but have largely neglected AI risk…
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Application: Profiles Aggregating Forecasting Performance Metrics
This is an Application post, one of many post categories found on this blog. To see what to expect from posts in each category, along with categorized…
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Research: Forecasting with Large Language Models
How good is it now, and how could it get better?
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Application: Connect Metaculus to the EA Forum to Incentivize Better Research
A hypothetical case study in how forecasting accuracy and citations can be used to reward the most useful research
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